We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in … patterns of mortality decline. Patterns of income inequality were similar in both countries, but adult and elderly mortality … rates declined most rapidly during the period when inequality increased. Changes in the rate of mortality decline in the US …

deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of income inequality on the rate of decline of mortality over time, on … geographical pattens of mortality, and on individual-level mortality. Much of the literature needs to be treated skeptically, if …

I present a model of mortality and income that integrates the 'gradient,' the negative relationship between income and … mortality, with the Wilkinson hypothesis, that income inequality poses a risk to health. Individual health is negatively … reference groups, which may be as large as whole populations, mortality declines with income, but at a decreasing rate; the …

cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There … is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been …

We develop a method to compare levels and trends in inequality in mortality in the United States and France in a …, inequality in mortality in France remained remarkably low and stable. In the United States, inequality in mortality increased for …

Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to … fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 years. At the same time, mortality rates … income per capita and mortality rates, a correlation that also exists within countries, where richer, better-educated people …

responsible for most of the mortality convergence observed between 1965 and 1995 …